56 Life and Writings 
They became distracted with fear; 
They raised a tremendous shout, 
And abandoned their city, 
And eollected an army so immense, 
That the dust thereof obscured the light of 
day. 
They advanced to seek the battle, 
Like men insane, or prowling wild beasts; 
The earth trembled, and the sky was invol- 
ved in darkness, 
As they filled the hills and the vallies. 
Fear fell on my army, 
And my mind was filled with anxiety ; 
With a hundred blows of my mace, 
I compelled them to pass the boundary: 
Then I came, and bruised the faces, 
And clove the heads of the enemy. 
A grandson of the mighty Sulm 
Came like a wolf to the battle; 
The name of the illustrious warrior was 
- Caucavee, 
He was beautiful of countenance, and tall as 
the cypress; 
By his mother he was of the race of Zohak: 
Heroes were as dust before him. 
His army was asa host of ants or locusts, 
The multitude thereof covered the hills, the 
plains, and the vallies. 
